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Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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4253.24/5.03.23/5.0Summer8%30.1Tulip
Commercial Description:
Pils, Carapils, and wheat malts, Belgian candi sugar
Magnum and Styrian Goldings Hops
This beer is brewed in the Belgian Saison style (country farm house ale). A potent yet delicate ale, brewed with a unique Belgian yeast which develops a spicy, fruity flavor. Enormously complex. Available from May to around August.
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 jeffc666 (1891), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 21, 2004  
Clear golden with a frothy off-white head that dissapates rather quickly. Sweet and yeasty aroma, quite fruity and mildly spicy. Pretty nice saison flavors, candi sugar and peaches up front then a dry bready malt towards the end. Medium full body. Nice beer overall. I was doubtful, but color me impressed.


 ucusty (1887), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/104/515/20
Jun 27, 2007    Updated: Jun 28, 2007
Decent US version of a belgian classic. Aroma is hay and yeast. Flavor is a nice fruity sasion. weird metallic after- taste was it worth 2 bucks now thats the real question? no real floaters like im used to seeing in a belgian farmhouse or even the bison


 Beerdedone (1885), Croydon, Pennsylvania, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Apr 24, 2006    Updated: Apr 26, 2006
Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of sweetness, citrus, fruit. Flavor is smooth and enjoyable, although it is weak i loved this brew.


 stegosaurus (1882), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/515/20
Feb 1, 2006  
pours hazy golden with a large white head, nice sweet malt aroma with some spices. smooth flavor, would have never guessed 8%, sweet, great, good body, awesome brew


 emacgee (1881), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 1, 2007  
Poured a hazy yellow amber with a white medium creamy head. The aroma is slightly fruity, spicy, a mild sourness, and a tad yeasty. The flavor is sour, spicy, some citrusy, basementy, and earthy. The palate was eh. Follows the Clipper City paradigm, not very good but not a disaster either.


 mgumby10 (1858), Jupiter, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Feb 21, 2007  
Pours a bubbly orange with a very thin white head. Not a very big nose on this one. A little citrus and spices, light orange. Taste is pretty decent. Cinnamon spice is the most dominant in this flavor in this one. Relatively smooth. Not extremely complex. Pretty refreshing. I definitely prefer the Belgian saisons much more, but this one wasnt too shabby.


 DrnkMcDermott (1848), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Nov 9, 2005  
Bottled. "Best by" notch at April 2005. Nice bright gold color under a thin fizzy head. Pleasant beery, slighty tart smell, perhaps a tad of skunk from its age. Bottle-conditioned, and pouring kicked up a bit of dead yeast. Still, it’s spritzy, with lemon and cherry, and just a touch of cinnamon and clove. A tad alcoholic with post-bottling fermentation. Nice light Pils malts, a very pretty pour. Despite its age, it shows and tastes very nicely.


 Sham (1846), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Sep 4, 2004  
Gold, with a small head of white, slightly creay. No lacing really, just a couple of spots. Aromas of citrus, mostly orange, but there is some lemon. Coriander and some floral hops spice it up a bit. There is a sourdough aroma, a bit funky and yeasty. Strong coriander in the flavor. Citrus right behind that. Lemons more here. There is a creamy maltiness abundant. Finishes smooth with a bitter bite. Not too bad.



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